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by cannabis_sam 536 days ago
DRM is a government sanctioned desecration, by corporations, of your private property rights, by its very definition.

Whether it’s in the GPU, CPU, TPM, or any other part of computing property you ostensibly own, is an utterly irrelevant distraction, the root is the unholy alliance of government and capital power.

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No, if anything, the fact that governments allow businesses to only "license" you digital content, i.e. not give you the option to actually acquire property rights in it, is. DRM is just a technical implementation detail downstream of that.
> the root is the unholy alliance of government and capital power.

And Labor too, don't forget!

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/sag-aftra-back-an...